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Beyond better incentives for researchers and donors, a fundamental shift in the culture of science is needed to accelerate scientific progress, and several promising initiatives are underway.
The fallacy in the anti-abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.
There were no surprises in the basic thrust of the strategy – a structural shift in China’s investment- and export-led growth model toward a more balanced consumer-based and services-led economy.
The strategic shift is also a deliberate effort by Chinese policymakers to avoid the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a mid-stage slowdown that has ensnared most emerging economies when per capita income nears the $17,000 threshold (in constant international prices).
Rhetoric aside, Israel – like other US allies in the Middle East – is worried about America’s gradual withdrawal from the region, a policy shift that has allowed Russia to regain lost influence there.
But to do so requires a shift from “hard” strategies like structural adjustment to “soft” ones – in particular, the development of human capabilities.
In engineering that shift, leaders should focus on developing the four pillars of a knowledge economy, as defined by the World Bank’s Knowledge Economy Index.
Once Africa is further along in the development process, its economies, like China’s today, will have to shift from imitation to genuine innovation.
Images of MBS at the summit, interacting with fellow world leaders, will shift the narrative away from his actions, signaling a tacit international acceptance of his behavior and opening the way for a return to the status quo.
But perhaps the most important shift made in the Paris agreement is from selective coercion to collectively supported competition.
The transparency mechanism supports this shift, by allowing journalists, activists, scientists, concerned citizens, and climate-friendly businesses to engage in debates, publicize successes and failures, solicit help and advice, and offer support to lagging countries.
US global leadership is therefore bound to shift away from free trade, globalization, and open markets.
The rise of Islamist regimes throughout the Arab world, and the subsequent shift of regional alliances, has increased the Jewish state’s isolation.
This is not the first time that Putin has worried about a Ukrainian shift toward the West.
Stronger-than-expected growth could trigger an increase in long-term US interest rates, encouraging investors to shift more of their holdings from emerging market assets to US assets.
The Paris climate agreement will be remembered as a success only if we manage to shift our focus from talk to effective action.
Rarely has a leadership change in one EU member state created expectations of a real policy shift.
While the peg gives GCC currencies credibility, it has prevented real depreciation and fails to reflect the deep structural changes in GCC members’ economic and financial links over the past three decades – particularly the shift away from the United States and Europe and toward China and Asia.
In the process, they would shift some of the policy emphasis from production to consumption.
Now, if, as appears to be the case, Europe does not want its south to spend more than it earns and its north to spend less, wages, prices, and productivity must shift.
In short, there has been a tectonic shift in the geopolitics of energy.
After 30 years of massive effort, all prohibitionism has achieved is to shift areas of cultivation and drug cartels from one country to another (the so-called balloon effect).
We ended our report with a call for a paradigm shift.
These were highlighted in an “Open Letter to Obama” that I organized and released, over the signatures of nearly 50 of today’s most influential trade experts worldwide, urging a presidential shift in policy towards Doha.
If the public is to support such a shift toward discretion over rules, however, the system of fiscal governance for the eurozone members must be subject to real market discipline.
Israel’s shift in policy towards Syria, and that of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was a powerful message to the Americans that they should not miss the Lebanese train as well.
Clinton, however, may well shift closer to Sanders’s position over time, as she has on other issues.
Even when rebranded as a “rebalancing,” America’s eastward shift is inevitably met with suspicion by some Asian countries, particularly China.
With no hint of paternalism, and recognizing its status as a work-in-progress, the EU should increase its engagement with Asia’s existing structures and lend its know-how where possible – for example, in ASEAN’s shift toward a three-pillared design (political-military, economic, and socio-cultural) by 2015.
If the world is going to shift in the direction of a new and more globally democratic system, other nations will need to meaningfully step forward to assume new responsibilities.
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